Dog Sanctuary Network New England

04/07/2025

18/02/2025

In just a few seconds, your dog or cat could be stolen from your yard or dragged off of your front porch – used in a dog fighting ring, as bait, or a fighter, or flipped for profit. In fact, in the time it takes you to read this sentence, someone could have stolen your pet. Since many pet thefts go unreported, it’s impossible to know exactly how many animals are taken, but, historically, an estimated two million pets are stolen in the United States each year.

How You Can Protect Your Pets:

- Keep your pets indoors, especially when you are not at home. Do not leave your pets unsupervised in your yard; it only takes a minute for thieves to steal your beloved companion animals.

- Keep your pet on a leash and do not let your pet roam free in your neighborhood.

- Never leave your pet alone in a car.

- Properly identify your pets with a collar, tag, and microchip.

- Ensure your pets are spayed and neutered; fixed animals are less likely to wander away from home.

- Keep recent photos and written descriptions of your companion animals on hand at all times and maintain up-to-date records and licenses on all of your pets.

- Be aware of strangers in your area and report anything unusual, such as suspicious neighborhood activities or a surge in missing pets, to local police and animal control

11/01/2025

* Edit - this beautiful boy is safe and well in another rescue’s care. https://www.facebook.com/OkPetCollective

And this is what a bait dog looks like 😢…

When you give your animals away to people you don't know, they are at risk of being tortured like this poor, sweet boy.

PLEASE, always reach out to reputable rescue
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10/01/2025

10/01/2025

06/01/2025

Friends, first we want to thank everyone who donated so generously to towards Tana's care. Our president visited him in the hospital today where he's fighting for his life against FIP (feline infectious peritonitis). Tana is very, very sick. It hurts our hearts to see him this way. He's just started an experimental treatment which has shown promise in other cats and kittens with this terrible condition and it really is his only chance to survive. Please continue to send all of the positive thoughts and good karma that you can to Tana! And any donations made for his care would be gratefully accepted.

19/12/2024

Most people are aware that Michael Vick was a dogfighter. They may even have illusions of what they think dogfighting is at its worst or the suspected actions that take place. However, what Vick did was not simple dogfighting.

Picture your dog or your friends dog tossed to a couple of animals trained to fight for humans. Imagine that animal screaming as it is being ripped apart and having its throat ripped out. Imagine the person that tossed that helpless animal to the other animals just laughing as it occurs and later admitting he thought it was funny. That person who tossed the animals to the others is Michael Vick.

Imagine taking a bucket used to hold water, filling it with water, and holding a dogs head in it until it drowns while it stands on land.

Have you ever thought of the image of hanging a dog? He did that too. He also picked them up over his head before slamming them downward on concrete at his full force over and over.

Imagine the blunt force trauma that dog felt as it hit concrete over and over from not dying the first time.

He also attached jumper cables to their ears and tossed them in a pool to electrocute them.

This is not about dogfighting. That has become a separate issue. The acts in dogfighting are disgusting and reprehensible. What Vick did was to take it one step further and find a way to legitimately torture dogs like a horror movie.

He does NOT deserve to be honored. The NFL is CHOOSING this and they deserve the pushback that is occuring.

The NFL has many more wonderful individuals that are using their platform for amazing causes. Google My Cause My Cleats. Google about Warrick Dunn. Google about so many others.

Vick does NOT deserve to be honored.

If you want to call and complain to the NFL, you can call 212-450-2000 to let them know your thoughts and feelings.